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Awareness
An inverse is absence, particularly visual absence Absence by occlusion: parts are hidden Absence by vacancy: characterized by lack of visual information Pure visual absence: no visual information is provided On Having No Head D....
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Descartes' Meditations
First Meditation → skeptical doubts descartes wants to find a foundation of knowledge that will still stand strong even after doubting the most basic facts about the world everything descartes has accepted has true has come through senses, but senses can deceive First Argument Some experiences are deceptive (e....
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The Upanisads
A collection of texts composed over several centuries (the oldest from ca....
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Desire path
The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination....
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Brains in a Vat
Brain in a Vat Putnam’s Ant Argument: does intentionality matter for representation?...
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Brentano's Thesis
Intentionality is the mark of the mental. His thesis posits two points:...
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Colour
Texture Detail in an image that is at a scale too small to be resolved into its constituent elements and at a scale large enough to be apparent in the spatial distribution of image measurements...
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Connectionist networks
architecture large number of units which are connected to others (connectionism) and the connections have different strengths (weights) units are arranged in layers computation happens in parallel like in a classical machine, representations are assigned to connectionist networks by the people who build them two types of connectionist representation localist → each unit is assigned a feature as a whole that represents distributed → state of the network as a whole represents something often claimed to be one of the distinctive features of connectionism connectionist networks is sometimes called parallel distributed processing (PDP) can be trained to learn resemble the structure of the brain much more closely than any classical computer really good at pattern recognition
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Constructionism
Mindstorms “As children construct things in the world, they construct new ideas and theories in their minds, which motivates them to construct new things in the world, and on and on....
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Crutch and Shoe metaphor
Those with broken legs will use crutches. Shoes however, will enhance performance no matter what....